OK, this is the first proper long message for 2014 <feels all festive>. I’ve tried to include some of the popular stuff from last year as well as some of the new bits. I may well have missed some important bits, so please let me know if that’s the case.

Huge to jerseyspud for helping me to update this.

This isn't all the links from the last thread (if there's a superdooper one I've missed please let me know)

No more socks is a free app you might find useful for budgeting etc info here

Zulily is worth a look and has new stock every day. use this link to earn me some credit for referrals My tip if you’re buying something big with hefty delivery fee is so buy something cheap and small from their site first then you get free delivery for the rest of the day so then go back and buy bulky order.

Just spotted this in one of the Facebook bargain threads - Science Museum Desk Life Garden Lab now £7.51 (Amazon Prime). There are no reviews for it but it looks cool and it is actually £25 in a few other places so a bargain if it works .

Argos did their first 3 for 2 in August when they launched their new catalogue and September. I think there was a later one too but was done by then. amazon reduced their prices last year so sometimes it was better from amazon.